The Modern Art Notes Podcast — Renée Stout on her work at Sheldon

In Legba and the Pearl Gourd, Stout paints an allegorical portrait of hoodoo, an African American form of spirituality grounded in African Yoruba deities, Caribbean vodou culture, and Christianity. Here, Stout references Papa Legba—a guardian spirit of crossroads who is both trickster and transformer—to emphasize the complexity of decision making.